A review by eanneabraham
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Elizabeth O'Roark

4.0

**MAJOR SPOILERS**

If you mix “The Summer I Turned Pretty” with “Dear John” and turn that into a 2009 Rom Com… you get this book! 

Drew Wilson (bottle-blonde broken pop star) is falling for Dr. Joshua Bailey (7 ft tall brooding big-dick MD)… but the only problem is… she’s in a situationship with his loser little brother Six (indie rockstar stoner). Throw in the Bailey’s cancer-sick mother and cheating work-a-holic father.. and things get cliche & chaotic. The story starts off at a vacation resort in Hawaii… and ends with a HOSTAGE SITUATION at a (white savior) Somalian war camp! kinda crazy… and clearly written by a white woman. 

When Drew and the good doctor Josh have to snuggle up in a tent to escape the freezing pouring rain, I was swooning! When he comforts her asthmatic-panic attacks and beats up Six cause he forgot her inhaler..  I loved it UGH. The height & age difference between the two paired with the forbidden romance vibe is to-die-for! Most importantly, this book has made me realize- since I’m a panic prone hypochondriac… I should probably marry a doctor.
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